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This Father’s Day, I’m celebrating the two dads in my life

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15.06.2025

Fox News senior correspondent Benjamin Hall tells 'Hannity' about his new book 'Resolute.'

For many young girls, their father is the childhood hero who carries their bike, puts the Band-Aid on their injuries, and – in my case – caught me when I fell off the horse. 

But when I was 15, Dad did a lot more than clean a scraped knee. On my way to softball practice, I was in a head-on collision that left me with a traumatic brain injury and in a coma for more than two weeks. 

I didn’t know it at the time, but my father, who is a first responder for our county, was on the scene. 

Saige Scheele, 15, with her father Jay Scheele at University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, fall 2022.

He stabilized my neck as the emergency team extracted me from the car and lifted me into the ambulance. For many fathers, that might be the most heroic and most difficult thing they do for a child.

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But a few months after the accident, Dad did something even harder: he told me that there was a bigger hero in my life – God – and that my recovery was between me and........

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